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0. H. SMITH. HANDLE Guano., APPLICATION FILED MAY Zf. |9|5.

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om II. SMITH, OF LEVELANID, OHIO.

HANDLE-GUARD.

application id May a4, isis. seriai No. 30,127.

To all Iwhom it may concern:

Be it known that I, OMAR-H. SMiiH, a citizen ot the United States, residing at Cleveland, in the county of Cuyahoga Yand State of Ohio, have invented new and useful Improvements in Handle-Guards, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates toa guai-dor protector for the handle of culinary utensils.

The primary object of the invention is to l provide a guard which when applied to the handle of a coffee-pot or similar vessel prevents the heating of the handle7 while the pot or vessel is resting upon a stove.

A further obje'ctof the invention is to provide a guard of this character which may be stamped from suitable material, and to one which may be quickly applied or easily detached from the handle of a pot or vessel when desired.

The invention. consists in the improved construction and novel arrangement and combination of arts which will be hereinafter fully deseribedand particularly pointed ont in the claim. f

`The preferred embodiment of the invention has .beer illustrated in the accompanying drawing, but no restriction is necessarily made to lthel precise structural details theiein shown, as changes, modifications and alterations in the scope of the claim may be resorted to when so desired.

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material and comprises a -rectangularly shaped body portion 4 havin one end thereon shaped to provide a hoo 5, which may be used to attach the handle guard to the handle of the coffee-pot as shown in Fig. 1 of the drawing.- The body 4 of the handle guard is bent at a point substantially intenmediate its ends to form right angularly ex- Specification of Letters Patent.

- vessel.

'Patented Ang. 29, 1916.

tending heat delecting surfaces G and 7, the hea't delecting surface G terminating in the handle engaging hook .3, while the heat delict-ting surface 7 is adapted to be disposed beneath the handle of the pot or vessel to which the handle guard is attached.

The heat deiecting surface 6 at one side thereof is beveled, as at 7 to form a shoulder which is adapted to assist in positioning the handle guard 3 upon the-handle of a A In practice when the `pot or vessel 1 is to be disposed upon a'"stove, or over a burner opening therein'the shoulder 7 is positioned against the handle on the pot or vessel and the hook end 5 of the guard 3 is dra-wn into engagement with the handle. It will be noted b v reference to Fig. 1 of the drawing that when the hook 5 is engaged with the handle ot' the pot or vessel the heat dctlecting surface 7 extends outwardly from the body of the. vessel and beneath the handle thereon.'so that the heat from the stove upon which theI vessel is disposed is deiected from the handle of the vessel, thus permitting the handle on the vessel to be grasped without the assistance of a cloth when removing the pot from lthe stove.

From the foregoing description taken in connection with the accompanying drawing it will be apparent that a handle guard has been provided, which' is inexpensive of manufacture, durable in use and of simple construction. A

lla ving thus described thev invention what is claimed is The herein described guard for retaining thehandle of a cooking vessei in a cm1 lcondition comprising a plate in the shape'ot' handle and above the bottom surface of thevessel 'When arranged upona stove or the like'and to be readily removed from thecooking vessel. In testimony whereof I aliix my signature in presence of tWo witnesses.

OMAR H. SMITH.

Witnesses FRANK J. .MCENNENYQ LOTTA MINER. 

